Improving the Performance of ALOHA with Internet of Things Using Reinforcement Learning

S Acik, S Kosunalp, MB Tabakcioglu, T Iliev - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intelligent medium access control (MAC) protocols have been a vital solution in enhancing
the performance of a variety of wireless networks. ALOHA, as the first MAC approach …

[PDF][PDF] Optimization of slotted ALOHA using Q-Learning

S Tyagi, P Jain - … on Optical Wireless Technologies (OWT 2019), 2019 - researchgate.net
Among all Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, Random Access Control protocols have
been widely studied for wireless networks due to their low cost and easy implementation. A …

Distributed Reinforcement Learning for scalable wireless medium access in IoTs and sensor networks

H Dutta, S Biswas - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a distributed Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for synthesizing
wireless network protocols in IoT and Wireless Sensor Networks with low-complexity …

Reinforcement learning based ALOHA for multi-hop wireless sensor networks with informed receiving

Y Chu, PD Mitchell, D Grace - 2012 - IET
In this paper, an ALOHA based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol (RL-ALOHA with
Informed Receiving) is proposed for multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which …

Deep-IRSA: A deep reinforcement learning approach to irregular repetition slotted ALOHA

I Ayoub, I Hmedoush, C Adjih… - 2021 10th IFIP …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect billions of devices, most of which are power and
memory-constrained. Such constraints require efficient network access.“Irregular Repetition …

Application of reinforcement learning to medium access control for wireless sensor networks

Y Chu, S Kosunalp, PD Mitchell, D Grace… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel approach to medium access control for single-hop wireless
sensor networks. The ALOHA-Q protocol applies Q-Learning to frame based ALOHA as an …

Multi-Armed-Bandit-based Framed Slotted Aloha for Throughput Optimization

N Peng, L Dai - IEEE Communications Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a Multi-Armed-Bandit (MAB) framework is proposed for maximizing the network
throughput of Framed Slotted Aloha (FSA). The throughput analysis shows that even with the …

On the capacity region of ALOHA protocol for the internet of things

M Noori, S Rahimian, M Ardakani - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08806, 2016 - arxiv.org
Accommodating the needs of a large number of diverse users in the Internet of Things (IoT),
notably managing how the users access the common channel, has posed unique …

Use of Q-learning approaches for practical medium access control in wireless sensor networks

S Kosunalp, Y Chu, PD Mitchell, D Grace… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper studies the potential of a novel approach to ensure more efficient and intelligent
assignment of capacity through medium access control (MAC) in practical wireless sensor …

Medium access using distributed reinforcement learning for IoTs with low-complexity wireless transceivers

H Dutta, S Biswas - 2021 IEEE 7th World Forum on Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a distributed Reinforcement Learning (RL) based framework that can
be used for synthesizing MAC layer wireless protocols in IoT networks with low-complexity …